Intel's chief executive of products departs among other leadership changes | TechCrunch

""With Srini leading Central Engineering, we're aligning innovation and execution more tightly in service to customers," Tan said in a company press release. "We are laser-focused on delivering world-class products and empowering our engineering teams to move faster and execute with excellence. Kevork, Jim, and Srini are exceptional leaders whose deep technical acumen and industry relationships will be instrumental as we continue building a new Intel.""

"The company also announced the creation of a central engineering group that will build a new custom silicon business for outside customers, according to Intel. This group will be helmed by Srinivasan "Srini" Iyengar who joined Intel from Cadence Design Systems in July. Intel also said that Kevok Kechichian, formerly of ARM, will join the company as head of its data center group."

"Intel announced Monday that Michelle Johnston Holthaus will depart the company after more than three decades. Johnston Holthhaus was most recently chief executive officer of Intel products and will remain a strategic adviser. Semiconductor giant Intel continues to shake up its senior leadership since Lip-Bu Tan took the helm as CEO in March. This news comes just a few weeks after the U.S. government announced a plan to convert existing government grants into a 10% stake in Intel."

Lip-Bu Tan became CEO in March and initiated senior leadership changes. Michelle Johnston Holthaus will depart after more than three decades and will remain a strategic adviser. Intel created a central engineering group to build a custom silicon business for external customers, to be led by Srinivasan 'Srini' Iyengar, who joined from Cadence in July. Kevok Kechichian will lead the data center group, Jim Johnson becomes senior vice president and general manager of the client computing group, and Naga Chandrasekaran takes on an expanded role at Intel Foundry. The U.S. government plans to convert grants into a 10% stake with conditions on foundry ownership.

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